Pierre Vogel

Pierre Vogel (20 July 1978-) was a radical imam from Germany.

Biography
Pierre Vogel was born on 20 July 1978 in Frechen, West Germany, and Vogel became a cruiserweight boxer for the Sauerland club, emerging undefeated after seven bouts (he tied one of the matches). He converted to Islam in 2001 before taking classes in Islamic studies both in Germany and Medina, Saudi Arabia, and he became an imam. Vogel married a Muslim from Morocco and fathered three children with her, and he became involved with the Muslim community in Germany. Vogel's messages were interpreted as a dark Nazi variant by Spiegel Online and as radical Islamism by Focus, and he quit boxing due to its illegality in puritanical Islam; on 25 April 2010, he said that polygamy should be legal because Germany had more women than men, and in January 2016 he claimed that a woman raped in Cologne by Middle Easterner migrants had faked the story to slander Islam before briefly releasing her personal details. On 16 April 2016, the Islamic State released a video threatening him just three days after the Islamic State called on jihadists to kill western imams.